Do the Battery cam pro ever need manual reboots?

[polarteddyneo]

@dave27

Actually a pretty common feature,

Thought you said it was common. How about non-Wyze swappable batterie cams?

[CatHome]

@ronl4625

The BCP is a well engineered battery camera. We currently have 4 monitoring the perimeter of our property. Three of the four are on solar

Sort of off topic, and I agree that they seem to be a solid, will engineered battery camera, but I and others are experiencing issues where the Battery Cam Pro’s are NOT recording to the cloud when they should be. Makes me wonder what my four Battery Cams are missing, see thread at:

Wireless Camera not picking up movement

Back on topic, I’ve a Battery Cam Pro and WCO v2 down a hill about a 100 feet from the house for over a month now, connected to Wyze Solar Panels, and, so far both batteries are maintained by the Solar panels, and neither has ‘locked up’ requiring laying of hands on them yet.

[dave27]

@polarteddyneo

Thought you said it was common.

I did, You didn’t say in Wyze cams, you said in wifi cams. Wyze’s only current battery cam (as well as the battery doorbells) have swappable batteries.

@polarteddyneo

How about non-Wyze swappable batterie cams?

Ring, Lorex, and Blink are all ones that come to mind that have it also. I’m sure there are a dozen more on google.

[CatHome]

@dave27

The BCP is the only battery cam currently offered by Wyze as far as I know, other than doorbells.

While I don’t see it for sale on the main Wyze.com site, I do still see the older Wyze Cam Outdoor (WCO v2) available in the Wyze store on Amazon. Oddly enough, I’ve a WCO v2 that is doing better at detecting deer properly in a field right now, than the newer ‘better’ Battery Cam Pro. They both have different ‘feature sets’ that may or may not be preferable for one’s use case. The WCO v2 (and v1) are discontinued models.

Wyze Cam Outdoor Starter Bundle v2 on Amazon

[dave27]

Yeah by “offered by Wyze” I mean current models that haven’t gone end of sale. It is still possible to get the older models, but honestly the whole “base station” model seems to be problematic for many and those cams don’t have as many features as the BCP.

[CatHome]

@dave27

but honestly the whole “base station” model seems to be problematic for many and those cams don’t have as many features as the BCP.

I agree that the Base Station used by the WCO v1 & v2 is ‘kludgy’, but it is that kludgy Base Station with a fairly newly purchased from Amazon WCO v2 that is documenting the issue I am seeing with the Battery Cam Pro issue I am experiencing (and others have posted about).

In Summary, I have a WCO v2 and a Battery Cam Pro, both connected to its own Wyze Solar Panel, both camera’s side by side, pointed in the same direction. Last night, I had another instance where the Battery Cam Pro is failing to record to the cloud or SD Card, a Deer slowly grazing literally in front of both cameras.

The ‘older technology’ WCO v2 gladly recorded to the cloud the slow movement of that deer:

i’ve 7 WCO v1s as well, and they actually serve a purpose for my use case as well. If I ever come across WCO v2’s for sale, depending on the condition of them, I’d still consider keeping them in service for how I use them. (like for keeping tabs on the problems my Battery Cam Pro’s are currently experiencing )

[dave27]

I know people have been complaining about some of the cams no longer detecting wildlife as pets. Maybe the WCO isn’t getting the algorithm updates or something.

Guess it depends on what OP is looking to capture.